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Does Amazon CloudFront support live streaming to multiple platforms?
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Yes. Amazon CloudFront provides you three options to easily and cost-effectively deliver live events over HTTP to multiple platforms:
Live Streaming using Wowza Media Server 3.6: Using Amazon CloudFront with Wowza Media Server combines the benefits of Wowza Media Server with the reliability, scalability, low latency and cost-efficiency of Amazon CloudFront to stream live events to multiple streaming formats, including Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Adobe HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and Microsoft Smooth Streaming. We’ve made this simple for you by creating an AWS CloudFormation template that handles all of the provisioning and sequencing for all the AWS resources you need for this live streaming stack. Amazon CloudFront provides you the scale and flexible pay-as-you-go pricing model, while the use of HTTP protocols for streaming your live event offers your viewers easy access to your live content. Using Amazon CloudFront for live streaming also gives you full control of your Wowza origin server so you can configure it to best work with the specific nature of your event. In addition, you can choose the Amazon EC2 instance type and AWS region that best meet the needs of your live event. A detailed tutorial for setting-up live HTTP streaming using Amazon CloudFront is available here.
Live Streaming using Adobe Media Server 5.0: Amazon CloudFront can be used with Amazon EC2 running Adobe Media Server (AMS 5.0) for live HTTP streaming to both Flash Player and Apple iOS devices. Amazon EC2 (running AMS 5.0) must be configured as the origin for a CloudFront web distribution. Similar to our other live streaming solutions we have setup an AWS CloudFormation template to make it easy for you to setup your pay-as-you-go streaming stack while providing you with full control of the AMS server running in the Amazon EC2 instances provisioned. A detailed tutorial (which also points to the AWS CloudFormation templates) for setting-up live HTTP streaming using CloudFront and AMS 5.0 is available here.
Live Streaming using Windows Media Services: You can also use Amazon CloudFront and Amazon EC2 running Windows Media Services for live streaming. With this solution, you can deliver live media over HTTP to both Microsoft Silverlight clients and Apple iOS devices. We’ve made it simple to get started by creating a tutorial and an AWS CloudFormation template to automate the provisioning of AWS resources for your live streaming stack. You only pay for the AWS resources you consume, and have full control over the origin server (Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Media Services) so you can configure additional IIS Live Smooth Streaming functionality.
Can I use Amazon CloudFront if I expect usage peaks higher than 10 Gbps or 15,000 RPS?
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Amazon CloudFront | Networking & Content Delivery
Yes. Complete our request for higher limits here, and we will add more capacity to your account within two business days.
Is there a limit to the number of distributions my Amazon CloudFront account may deliver?
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For the current limit on the number of distributions that you can create for each AWS account, see Amazon CloudFront Limits in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. To request a higher limit, please go to the CloudFront Limit Increase Form.
